Involved Subjects... like Chemistry, etc.
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Involved Subjects... like Chemistry, etc.
How are you handling subjects like Chemistry, Biology, etc? Anything that the average person doesn't usually know? Are you just going through the books and doing labs with them and learning as well or hiring tutors for some things?
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I'm using websites. Rader's Biology 4 Kids and it's sister sites on chemistry, physics, etc. provide a good guide and nice explanations. I supplement with stuff I find by googling so if we're reading about cell structure on Biology for kids I'll google "cell structure games', 'cell structure kids' etc.
Granted, my daughter is going on 9 so this isn't really advanced stuff but it could work for kids up until the senior high grades.
Granted, my daughter is going on 9 so this isn't really advanced stuff but it could work for kids up until the senior high grades.
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This year we got The Biology Coloring book and my daughter took a lab at the local science museum which was excellent. We could have done the lab at home I've found some great resources for that but I didn't want to.
The book was as full of information as a text book but had a kinesthetic element with the coloring. She ended up not being pleased because she thought the colors should symbolize certain things. Instead they were random. I have a feeling she may be designing curriculum someday.
She loved the lab.
This year she may take a home school class Chem and lab or she may dual enroll and take it from a college. There are a few other options as well. We haven't made our final decision yet.
In 9th grade we did SOS science. It was far too rigid for us.
Science Web sites:
http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/912.html
Microscopes
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/2665
Petri dishes
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/1166
Owl pellets
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/5530
Color paddles
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/5738
Test tube
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... s_id/12084
Litmus paper
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/5913
Skelton
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/7870
Anatomy charts
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/1936
Book
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... s_id/11630
Fake animals to vivisect
http://www.navs.org/education/dissectio ... =Education
Engineer book that looks good!
http://www.science2discover.com/Engineeringbooks.htm
Science books that look good!
http://www.science2discover.com/bookstore.htm
Quiz and game sites for high school
http://www.execulink.com/~ekimmel/index.htm
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/too ... ce-hs.html
http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/chem/
HTH,
Stellar
The book was as full of information as a text book but had a kinesthetic element with the coloring. She ended up not being pleased because she thought the colors should symbolize certain things. Instead they were random. I have a feeling she may be designing curriculum someday.
She loved the lab.
This year she may take a home school class Chem and lab or she may dual enroll and take it from a college. There are a few other options as well. We haven't made our final decision yet.
In 9th grade we did SOS science. It was far too rigid for us.
Science Web sites:
http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/912.html
Microscopes
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/2665
Petri dishes
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/1166
Owl pellets
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/5530
Color paddles
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/5738
Test tube
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... s_id/12084
Litmus paper
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/5913
Skelton
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/7870
Anatomy charts
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... ts_id/1936
Book
http://www.educationbarn.com/supplies/p ... s_id/11630
Fake animals to vivisect
http://www.navs.org/education/dissectio ... =Education
Engineer book that looks good!
http://www.science2discover.com/Engineeringbooks.htm
Science books that look good!
http://www.science2discover.com/bookstore.htm
Quiz and game sites for high school
http://www.execulink.com/~ekimmel/index.htm
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/too ... ce-hs.html
http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/chem/
HTH,
Stellar
We used Abeka Biology and I let dd choose it. She said it was more colorful than Apologia's text, which she used for General & Physical Science. I must add my recommendations of Abeka's lab videos - excellent quality and all the labs are on it, so if you prefer observing labs these videos are for you.
I also have a Biology coloring book, but dd never got around to working in that - good to know there is no pattern to the coloring.
I need ideas for Chemistry for next year. My dd is ADD and needs a gentle, user-friendly, step-by-step text/curriculum for this. Her brother used 1/2 Apologia Chemistry, which I still have, but I need something easier for me to regurgitate for dd to digest further. I held her back a grade, so we still have two more years to study what she needs.
P.S. I never took Chemistry in high school.
I also have a Biology coloring book, but dd never got around to working in that - good to know there is no pattern to the coloring.
I need ideas for Chemistry for next year. My dd is ADD and needs a gentle, user-friendly, step-by-step text/curriculum for this. Her brother used 1/2 Apologia Chemistry, which I still have, but I need something easier for me to regurgitate for dd to digest further. I held her back a grade, so we still have two more years to study what she needs.
P.S. I never took Chemistry in high school.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson.
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Our local libraries have a deal with an online tutor service. You might want to check if yours does as well. They are available from 3- 10 local time for grades three and up, I think it is.
They also have free rosetta stone available. Both are accessible from your home computer if you have a library card and internet.
Some libraries also have accelerated reader quizzes that your kid can take there. I am not a fan of the whole accelerated reader program though. I prefer my kids to read what they will enjoy or what follows a subject area they are learning.
Stellar
They also have free rosetta stone available. Both are accessible from your home computer if you have a library card and internet.
Some libraries also have accelerated reader quizzes that your kid can take there. I am not a fan of the whole accelerated reader program though. I prefer my kids to read what they will enjoy or what follows a subject area they are learning.
Stellar
Re: Involved Subjects... like Chemistry, etc.
When DS was just finishing 8th grade and DD was just starting 9th grade, there was a bio lab with dissecting offered in our area. A formerly homeschooled young woman who was majoring in pre-med or something worked out an arrangement with another mom of high schoolers to teach it in her basement to homeschooled high schoolers for 2 weeks. It was such a blessing for us!
When DS was finishing 11th and DD was starting 11th, DH offered a similar chem lab course in our kitchen. (He has a master's in engineering and a state high school science teaching certificate and tutors public high school kids in science.) He bought a small chem lab kit from Quality Science Labs through the Home Science Tools catalog.
http://www.homesciencetools.com
Other than that, we have the kids go through textbooks which we got old, used and free. When they need help they come to one or the other of us. Science is not my favorite thing in the world but I did OK in college.
Ramona
When DS was finishing 11th and DD was starting 11th, DH offered a similar chem lab course in our kitchen. (He has a master's in engineering and a state high school science teaching certificate and tutors public high school kids in science.) He bought a small chem lab kit from Quality Science Labs through the Home Science Tools catalog.
http://www.homesciencetools.com
Other than that, we have the kids go through textbooks which we got old, used and free. When they need help they come to one or the other of us. Science is not my favorite thing in the world but I did OK in college.
Ramona
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My son is going into 8th grade in the fall and science has been my major problem area as far as curriculums go. I did find this http://www.bluebengallearning.com/for_parents.aspx and have decided to go with it in the fall. I do like the idea that it is designed to hit different learning styles (interactive-based, picture-based, and word-based learning) as well as it being an NSES based curriculum. Anyway, just thought I'd share.
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